Ron and Hermione are united in holy matrimony at the end of the seven-novel Harry Potter series,
but author J.K. Rowling objects — realizing that Harry and Hermione should have ended up
together.

Rowling makes the bombshell of a revelation in an interview with actress Emma Watson — yes,
Hermione herself — in the latest issue of the British magazine Wonderland.

“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” Rowling says in the
interview, excerpts of which were published in The Sunday Times of London. “For reasons that have
very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first
imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.”

Although she feared she might be “breaking people’s hearts by saying this” — which, based on the
Potter fan website MuggleNet.com, she did — she has a supporter in Watson.

“I think there are fans out there,” Watson says, “who ... wonder whether Ron would have really
been able to make her (Hermione) happy.”